Smoking-tube



(No Model.)

J. VESTEB.

SMOKING TUBE.

No. 573,064; Patented Dec. 15, 1896.

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JOHN VESTER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SMOKING-TUBE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 573,064, dated December15, 1896. Application filed April 14, 1896. Serial No. 587,545. (Nomodel.)

T0 at whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN VESTER, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia andState of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Smoking-Tubes, of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention has relation to a tube as a substitute for a pipe forsmoking tobacco or the like therein, and in such connection it relatesto the construction and arrangement of the same for said purposes.

The principal objects of my invention are, first, to provide asmoking-tube which shall be simple in construction, cleanly, and havingsuch shape or form as that the objections incident to the use of the oldstyle of smoking-pipe are avoided, because instead of push ing the ashesdown into the pipe, as has hitherto been the custom, the tobacco ispushed onto the ashes, which are liberated through a screened cap orcover providedat one end of the tube second, to provide a smoking-tubeadapted for tobacco and in which the several parts thereof are arrangedso as to be readily assembled and disconnected for thoroughly cleaningthe interior and permitting of the use of the same and also arrangedinternally so as to prevent ashes or nicotine being drawn into the mouthin the use thereof, and, third, to provide a smoking-tube for tobacco orthe like having means provided in one end for permitting of theliberation of ashes accumulating therein from the tobacco by pushinginternally the stem and its accessories through the barrel or tube, andthe rear of said tube arranged so that thorough cleaning of the same canbe effected by the disengagement of the members connected with the stemof the device.

My invention, stated in general terms, consists of a tube for smokingtobacco or like matter therein, constructed and arranged insubstantially the manner hereinafter dcseribed and claimed.

The nature and scope of my invention will be more fully understood fromthe following description, taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, forming part hereof, and in which Figure 1 is a view partly inelevation and partly in central section of a smoking-tube embodying themain features of my invention. Fig. 2 is an elevational view, indetached detail, of the several members of the invention illustrated inFig. 1. Fig. 3 is a central sectional view of a modified form of theaccessories of the stem of the tube; and Fig. 4 is. an elevation a1view, detached, of the parts of the stem illustrated in Fig.

Referring to the drawings, A is the barrel or tube, provided at thefront extremity with a flanged sleeve or collar (1, snugly fitting intothe complem entally-recessed wall of the tube and provided with arevoluble screen cap or cover Z), having radial openings Z) therein.This cap or cover is hinged to said sleeve or collar a and held in aclosed position against the same by means of a catch 12 as clearlyillustrated in Figs. 1 and 2.

In the rear of the tube or barrel A is provided a cap 0, ofsubstantially the form illustrated in detail in Fig. 2, snugly fittingthe outer wall and engaging the inner surface of said barrel or tube A,so as to form an internal flange c, and into which barrel or tube isinserted the stem D of the tube A, provided with a mouthpiece (I, so asto abut against the flanged portion of said tube formed by the cap 0therein.

In the inner end of the stem D is inserted a screw-plug c, with a flanged head a". In the head of the plug e are provided converging openingse and 6 extending rearwardly and merging with a central longitudinalchannel a provided in the body of said plug and also in the stem D ofthe tube A.

e is a conical point extending from the head a of said plug.

1'' in Fig. 1 is a disk havinga central tapering perforation f, andwhich disk is adapted to engage arms f and f of a collar f fittingbeyond the head 6 of the plug 6. This disk, when in position in thebarrel or tube A, forms not only an air-escape means between the head aand the interior of the plug 6, but also serves as a means for pushingin a forward direction any accumulating ashes from the smoked tobaccowithin the interior of the tube A outward through the radial openings ofthe cap or cover I). The disk f also serves in the drawing upon the tubefilled with lighted tobacco any ashes or nicotine reaching the mouththrough the stem 1) and its mouthpiece cl, yet at the same time in noway preventing the free draft necessary to the smoking of the tobacco inthe tube.

In Figs. 3 and 4 is illustrated a modified form of the flanged plug 0,consisting of a tube slid over the head 6 so that through the rearperforated portion the threaded portion of the plug may be passed andthe conical point e adapted to be fitted through acomplementally'beveled body-disk f, fitting the wall of the tube, forexample, as clearly ill ustrated in Fig.

In use the pipe, when caused to assume the position illustrated in Fig.1, is filled with tobacco and lighted and the mouthpiece of the stemplaced in the mouth, and by drawing thereon the tobacco will be causedto burn in the tube A and the smoke arising therefrom to be drawnreamvardly through the tube A, disk f, converging openings 6 and e ofthe screw-plug 6, internal channel 6 of the stem D, and piece 01 intothe mouth, wherefrom it may be liberated into the open air, and anyaccumulating ashes arising from the tobacco may be forced outwardlythrough the tube A and the radial openings of the screen cap or cover 1)into the open air by pushing the stem inwardly in the tube in eitherform of the device of my invention illustrated in the drawings. Thescreen cap or cover I) is arranged so that the radial openings thereof,if desired, may be closed absolutely, opened, or partially closed by aturn of the spoke-like wings or arms of the screen thereof, as clearlyillustrated in detail in Fig. 2 of the drawings. The inner flange of thecap 17, it will be seen, limits the extent of rearward movement of thestem and its accessories in the barrel or tube A.

It will be manifestly obvious that modifications as to minor details ofmy invention may be made without departing from the spirit thereof, andhence I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the preciseconstruction and arrangement of all the parts of the same ashereinbefore described and illustrated; but,

Having thus described the nature and objects of my invention, what Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A smoking-tube provided with a perforated cap or cover at one end, astem with a mouthpiece at the other, a plug with a conical pointconnected with said stein said plug having internal converging channelsmerging into a central channel of said plug and stem, and a perforateddisk engaging the conical point of said plug, substantially as and forthe purposes described.

2. A smoking-tube provided with a stem having a mouthpiece, a detachableflanged conical-pointed plug with openings or channels leading to thecentral internal channel of the plug and stem, and a perforatedcentrally-beveled body-disk connected with said plug, substantially asand for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

J OHN VESTER.

Witnesses:

THOMAS M. SMITH, J. WALTER DOUGLASS.

